According to a University of Michigan study, estrogen appears to be the critical factor in what motivates women to be competitive—very similarly to how testosterone makes men aggressive.
U.S. biopsychologist Steven Stanton, working with U.S./German researcher Oliver Schultheiss (University of Michigan, currently on temporarily leave of absence at Friedrich-Alexander University in … [Read more...]

(excerpted from Forward to the Adult Guidebook, Coming of Age: From Bud to Flower Menarche Kit)
I taught my first Coming of Age class for mothers and their daughters in April of 1994. I remember walking into the workshop room, sitting down and looking into the eyes of 10 little girls who clung to the sides of the women with them. I immediately saw myself as a young girl in their eyes - … [Read more...]